MTV is working on a new series called “Model Makers,” and the premise is completely stupid. I know that’s not surprising, seeing as how it’s coming from the same network who brought us The Hills. But this is just perpetuating an unhealthy need many women already have to become waaaay too skinny. The premise is this: It’s a reality show which puts girls who are tall enough to be models, but not thin enough, through a grueling 12-week training program to get them skinny enough where they could be considered worthy enough of a modeling contract. They’ll have weekly eliminations and have to stay focused on losing weight, and the winner will get 100k and some sort of modeling contract. That’s the point of the show.
Look at the picture above of a typical model. You know why she looks so pissed off? She’s freaking hungry, that’s why. The very idea of this show is just wrong.
Actually, I wouldn’t blame all of her pissy-ness on the fact that she’s too freaking skinny. A lot of it has to do with the fact that she looks like a man.
And if this succeeds, next season will feature girls who are thin enough to be models but not tall enough. They will undergo Gattaca-style leg lengthening surgery where each week the bones will be stretched a little further. The winner receives 100k and a vat of Mederma.
Perhaps the funniest comment ever, Rosie. I especially liked the “vat of Mederma.”
I was a teacher for ten years and can attest to the influence MTV has had on our youth. It never ceased to amaze me that fatherless teenage boys in my classrooms looked to MTV for guidance on being men, and it never failed to break my heart when fatherless teenage girls looked to MTV to help define their roles as emerging women. Now this? Sorry, but I don’t think it can get lower. This is utterly destructive and sad. I’m willing to wager that the girls who signed up to be on this show are young girls whose parents are divorced. I’m not going to watch it, so you’ll have to let me know if I’m right or wrong.
Just when I think people have gone to THE most ridiculous lengths for “beauty”, MTV puts on a show like this. Soon there’ll be one on models trying to lose as much weight as possible, and the last one to not die of an eating disoder wins. Really, when will it stop? (Hopefully at “vat of Mederma.”)
Gross! I hate MTV more and more every day! I also hate the modeling industry. If you’re not a size 00, then you’re not skinny enough to fit into their designer clothes. Really, is this the depths that the American society has sunken to?
And as for the model in the picture, anybody see Grand Moff Tarkin from Star Wars?
I agree with all of you - MTV has sucked forever. I think Motty is right - she (?) is ticked off because (s)he’s worried the boy parts are going to flop out at any moment.
MTV strikes again… I’m sorry but if a girl is tall enough to be a model but not thin enough there’s probably a reason for that whether it be that their body frame is proportioned differently than what is the “ideal” model size or they don’t feel like being anorexic.
And… the model in the pic looks like a man lol
I for real thought that was a man and the mockery was going to be that he was wearing a man-kini. But, alas, no; MTV is just brainwashing our youth into eating disorders. Wonderful. They don’t have enough problems, let’s tell them on national television how fat they are.
Nice way to encourage anorexia, MTV…. Jesus!
I agree with Motty, it looks like a man but if you look closer you can see it’s Steven Segal with anorexia.
Steven Segal *LOL*
It’s mouth is all scrunched up like that because it is trying to hold in a mouthful of vomit until it can make it to a toilet.
MTV….teaching our impressionable teenage girls to be stupid, submissive, slutty, and starving since circa 1988. Oh, how I miss Martha Quinn and oh yeah….videos.